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'''Intrauterine device''', abbreviated '''IUD''', is a contraceptive device that is place in utero.

==General==
*Should be removed if [[Actinomycetes]] found on a pap test.<ref name=Ref_WMSP446>{{Ref WMSP|446}}</ref>

==Gross==
*T-shaped foreign body.
**Top part of "T" typically at the fundus.

==Microscopic==
Features:
*+/-[[Psammoma bodies]].<ref name=pmid12278909>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Boon | first1 = ME. | last2 = Kirk | first2 = RS. | last3 = De Graaff Guilloud | first3 = JC. | title = Psammoma bodies and some opportunistic infections detected in cervical smears of women fitted with an IUD. | journal = Contracept Deliv Syst | volume = 2 | issue = 3 | pages = 231-6 | month = Jul | year = 1981 | doi =  | PMID = 12278909 }}</ref>
*[[Endometrial polyp]].<ref name=pmid11854631>{{cite journal |author=Fausett MB, Zahn CM, Kendall BS, Barth WH |title=The significance of psammoma bodies that are found incidentally during endometrial biopsy |journal=Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. |volume=186 |issue=2 |pages=180–3 |year=2002 |month=February |pmid=11854631 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*[[Inactive endomtrium]].{{fact}}

==See also==
*[[Gynecologic pathology]].
*[[Gynecologic cytopathology]].
*[[Oral contraceptive pill]].

==References==
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[[Category:Gynecologic pathology]]